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Chad Hurley, one of the co-founders who launched online video
powerhouse YouTube in 2005,
is spearheading a new kind of video platform. Riffing on an April
Fools' Day prank about YouTube shutting down (it isn't really),
Hurley sent a tweet today announcing
MixBit, a collaborative video website that appears to be
launching soon.

Hurley first
teased MixBit at the South by Southwest festival last
month. In a talk with Digg founder Kevin Rose, he said
MixBit is not out to kill YouTube, but that it will serve a
different purpose, allowing users "to work together and create
content."

Further details about the platform have not been released,
although anyone who's interested can sign up and join the MixBit
mailing list for more
information. Hurley did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.

Hurley was part of the team that sold YouTube to Google in 2006
for $1.65 billion. Since leaving YouTube in 2010, he has focused
his energies on AVOS, the Google Ventures-backed company he
started with fellow YouTube co-founder Steve Chen. AVOS's startup
properties include social bookmarking site Delicious and digital magazine
creation app Zeen.